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[Monster World RPG]

@Monster World RPG: First, thanks a lot for the detailed answer. But before I cover it a few things I spotted in between.
Bug: On route to Sanctuary Stream, after beating the Chest mimic next to the star blocks, the treasure chest to its left opens by itself. But you still have to check the chest to actually get its contents (some Life Drops).
Bug: I got the Spirit crest from Aegis Sanctuary and did the first time trance. After that I collected the remaining 3 crests (+ 1 along the Legendary Equipment) and only then did the next trances one after another. But after the 4th trance (where Biomeka got shot into space) when I got back to the oracle, the Wind crest lost its color again and the two spots above it were still empty.
After the cutscene at the queen I could use the 5th crest normally to go to heaven, so nothing was broken beyond repair.
Suggestion: As far as I can tell, only the Monster Lairs have a rainbow over the entrance, if you did not get the item the boss left behind. I would really appreciate if every dungeon entrance had that too, if you're missing at least one hidden door or gold spot in there ("dungeon" as in going by the list in the genie's warp menu). Reason being that dungeons tend to be too long for my liking to check them all again from beginning to end.
Now to your answer. You mentioned quite a few things that bothered me because they simply were that way in the original game(s). I guess that's fine but I told you in my very first post that I never played those and am therefore judging your game completely as a standalone. I know that nostalgia is an important factor in fan games (I love all those references in the Hyrule Warriors games for example) but to players unfamiliar with the original some of those things might just seem strange.
In my opinion that should justify checking for each reference if it's really necessary to be copied to the point just for the sake of that specific reference. But if you decide against that (as it seems) I won't waste time and words to convince you otherwise. But maybe you'll keep this in mind for future projects.

I did notice that it was the holes that got updated from "inactive" to "populated" (so to speak), but from the mole chief's explanation, I got the impression that all the holes are connected (2nd and 3rd "level" holes are added to the network due to Hotta's help later), so it seems strange to me, that the earlier holes (which should draw from the same base/warehouse in the network) have the moles with the minor goods.


All my characters are now at their maximum capacity, I guess (having done the Heaven section), but I still have to try them out. The comparision definitly gets a bit skewed at the moment because Shabo, Hotta and Junior are lagging behind quite a bit in levels and that manifests especially in their low speed (even Shabo).
I know Final Fantasy and probably a lot other RPGs did that "small active party out of bigger roster" thing, but if the inactive characters don't level along automatically the less I am inclined to use them later on just for the sake of them catching up. At least I am more willing to swap characters around if they are not worse simply because of a few missing levels. And I know it can be done with the maker (not sure if it needs a script, though) because at least one game here in the forum did that.


As far as reference goes, see above. Beyond that, here our reception seems to differ. I did not see all the dragon heads + final Drancon as one battle (maybe as one encounter, but that's something different to me). To me, the fight with the heads with characters I could never use before felt special but was also the prelude to the actual (chapter's) final battle. These things set the ante for me of what to expect from it. It should go beyond this in some way or at least be on par with it. And sadly, it didn't in the slightest.
It's probably also because of the Save point before Drancon (which SHOULD stay, don't get me wrong here!) which makes it feel seperated from the dragon head battles to me.


Well, the sleeping intro has its own trope by now, so that didn't feel copied to me at all.
But the (seemingly) Big Bad Drancon and the hero Max appearently being brothers and Drancon being manipulated by a bigger bad on the a moon, that's some very specific similarities to FF IV's plot.


I meant the actual item "Potion" which restores a (at that time of the game) really low amount of health (30 HP or so). These are dropped by the random encounters on the station (mechanical mini octopi, I think).


When Biomeka is still inside the mechanical cage.


I admit that, but Freezer got a whole new color scheme which makes for a drastic (visual) change while Pepe's alterations are a lot more subtle.


Maybe, but the One Piece is directly connected to Ruufy's goal of becoming the Pirate King (getting one means getting the other, actually) and therefore is a main driving factor.
The equipments in your game on the other hand are introduced more like "oh, and while you're on that adventure, why not look out for these special things". As I said, I wouldn't mind so much (probably not at all) if early on in the game there was simply rumors from some NPCs and maybe anecdotes in a few books.
And I mean, why even make it sidequests. These are special equipments with promising names, of course I want to have them. That's probably more of a reason, why getting the quests so early without being able to do anything until so late, annoys me so much.


I can't remember him saying anything about actually doing an upgrade. In the first encounter he planned to do it (and spread the basic version around Aqua) and at the other 2 times he "only" gave me some items. And the last time he puts them up in Rapadagna as well.

Ok, that was quite a lot again! More actual game review some next time.

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I don’t consider the stream sanctuary gold chest issue as a bug. It was something made different just for a single time. It was our choice, maybe it was weird, I admit it, but not a bug.
Thanks for the report about spirit crest, we will check this out. That part caused a lot of debugging to us.
The rainbow outside some monster’s lair were done in that way by purpouse. In that vein you have to consider the monster lair as a small room with a secret. SInce it’s secret only appear at certain condition we decided to highlight the whole entrance in order for the player to not miss its secrets.
By the way, your suggestion for making other dungeon more user-friendly whent to search for secrets will be taken into account, but in a totally different way we have already decided.
About nostaliga: maybe I did not digress to much about it in my original reply. We left many things like in the original game simply because we didn’t feel the need to “upgrade” them. One example are the gear sprites. It didn’t crossed our mind to change their colors. For me their color was good. But all the other stuff were upgraded a lot. Try to search for the riginal sprites from wonder boy the dragon’s trap for example and confront the knight sprites we have done with the many beast incarnation of wonder boy from the original games.

About the other stuff in the “spoiler” window: abot many of those issues there’s nothing more I have to say, it is matter of opinion, but there are a few which deserves another reply:
- Max and Drancon are not brother in any way. I don’t know if you explanined bad yourself or if I didn’t get what you was trying to do. In any case they are not brothers.
- In any case many we are already discussing/working on many of the things you told us cause they are an interesting point of view.
If I could/have the will/have concrete possiblities, I would have crowfounded a project to create an original game with no copyright issues and with an original game engine which does not encounter the limitations of rpgmaer and that re-run the story and features of MWRPG: in that case I believe that ALL of your indications could have been taen into account!!!